Blogging on TZ2

 

Blogging on TZ; The Style of the Modern Fool

Hate your technology. I’ve spent more than 14 years with them, and VAIO, especially my TZ2, has taught me a lesson finally – to hate the heat, the microwaves, and the LED screen – only the keyboard is fine.

TZ2 still can’t boot from sleep or while running only on battery. I wasted many hundreds of dollars on two decade-old VAIO PCs and did troubleshooting and hardware changes, all for wasting time? No skills or knowledge is involved. Perhaps I did it to develop my own way, for instance my own way of slowing the CPU. It could have been due to history. I used to have (in Sydney and in Japan) a type TX and type N white notebook. After parting with them in early 2013 and late 2014, I probably felt nostalgic or something. So TX became my current TZ2 and N became FE4 for DSD listening. (type A would have been better but is not common in Australia) Mainly I wanted to develop a disgust with technology. To be so over it. To be so bored of it. No matter what the next hot design is, I’m already resolute that no such thing will inspire curiosity from me. Quantum computing will arrive with A.I. I will not be using those ‘computers’. TZ is my ‘piano’ (referring to the plastic shine of the keyboard) but I’m worried about its CPU and battery circuit. The Office 2007 key should work after an SSD upgrade; the EISA partition on USB that took one and a half hours to create should be able to boot or be copied back to a SSD. That’s in case no DVD-Rs are available. I may not send for repairs – I feel it may have been already, besides even if they hadn’t, the repairers can’t replace anything now that warranty has seemingly passed and they can only add damages. It’s interesting how this TZ suddenly popped up, only used 200 times/60 hours in the past ten years. It doesn’t have the SSD of 48GB that uses Samsung chips and is made by Sony in Japan, so its value is somewhat less. It was still a really expensive and really weak and really hot machine. Why me and why now? I remember guys back in 2008; they’d enjoy music and do typing on TT which is DSD capable. So why do I willingly fall for TZ? Perhaps the hard edges and retro feel combined with modern design concepts appealed to me.

Sometimes I realise how disruptive my actions are to others. Sometimes I need to consult others more to avoid the worst of things. And I need to make sure more work is done.

I note that in the movie ‘The Social Network’, the actor depicting the protagonist was using a laptop which didn’t have the VAIO logo on the lid, but had it below the screen. In the same way, my acer laptop has the VAIO logo beneath the screen. It’s my own custom-made VAIO from acer. In ‘2012’ one may see a meeting in which every official is using portable VAIO PCs. I felt no unnaturalness in this, as at the time, I believed that all PCs were VAIO PCs.

Regarding TZ and SSDs, I can use USB to boot? And do C: drive recovery without partition? Or use discs or clone the recovery partition to SSD via ZIF cable which I will try to avoid. TZ has been a continuous disappointment since it doesn’t start-up when the power button is pressed (seller asserts it was working before shipping to me). The DC jack direction of insertion doesn’t change anything, and strangely, it boots after reinserting the jack many many many times! It overheats under normal stress-levels such as a simple starting –up of Vista Business. The paste can’t even be replaced because the heatsink is not level and is screwed tight, unlike other PCs. I bought it to watch videos on Firefox; now even Word processing is laggy. I remember TX was good, and TT never had issues like this. Note the CPU has overheated in excess of 20 times. When sending in for repair, I must set CPU to 10% and hide the registry keys and delete all additional files. Somehow TZ symbolises myself. Speed of TZ probably equals SZ running Windows 8?

I’m in a great hurry, yet TZ is so slow. This moment of frustration while seeing a frozen screen in front makes you want to destroy everything. Yet at the same time you know that given time, the PC can accomplish things. And that’s me. I never have enough time. Later I found out that disabling updates and easeUS services would help the PC unfreeze.

It’s great to imagine things and keep TZ, but it gives me the creeps. Sometimes CPU goes to 100% constant and the fan sound is disruptive. I must be crazy I think to myself. I want the PC to work! From power on to the last taskbar icon to appear. Oh, and the annoying screen adjustments that Vista likes to do! That flashing of the screen always annoys me. It doesn’t affect powerful 2GHz machines like FE4 as much though. Maybe if VAIO TZ was made in China they would have put on high quality paste? Azumino fellows sometimes fail to consider the heat! They do checks but only JUST make it safe to use. Even showing Word 2007 on top of Windows Explorer is taking 10 minutes after I’d turned all unnecessary services off! I just love the way nothing works. 11.1” portables from VAIO are mostly like this? ‘(Not Responding)’ is second nature to TZ.

What’s good however, is that TZ’s typing sound is quite low-end. At times, this means nothing, especially when Vista won’t boot after a long period - trial of jack insertions! Perhaps being nice to TZ is like being patient with myself. Anyhow, TZ has brought the greatest PC tragedy ever to me. All actions lead to burn-outs. Nothing can solve this PC that isn’t a PC. Don’t even try to hope with the TZ. Even at 20% max it’ll overheat when you rush. Doing ‘multitasks’ is impossible.

I was going to buy a $340 VAIO Z12 that wasn’t glossy black carbon from a Queenslander, but I changed my mind. Then the TZ came along! I just hadn’t realised that even this weakling was always a heat monster. The screen is smaller and isn’t 96% RGB either. I remember seeing Sony CSL people using VAIO PCs especially the former leader/founder. I also note that T series (TX,TZ, TT) tends to be taken abroad and flown in aeroplanes, where their size is perfect for typing or entertainment. The colour of some T models are fabulous, like the gold coloured one, but Black is a style nevertheless. TT never made it to Australia I think. Type X was the netbook that replaced it and used Atom processors. Tablets and smartphones came along afterwards too. TX was the first ever to use the dreaded LED screen. TZ is the most hated laptop ever. TT is fully modern and makes TZ look like a loser. So TT is common in Japan, TZ is not regarded as a laptop by Sony, and TX is exhibited in Azumino. And I need to get my TX back because it is at my grandmother’s house. We need to get the three Ts together.